SKA is a leader for many decades in planning and landscape design serving clients nationally and internationally on high-profile projects at many scales. Our team is composed of professionals who are committed to creating sustainable, healthy & multi functional projects. Having LEED accredited staff in senior management positions, we place a strong emphasis on a sustainable approach to design which has a low impact development in the urban environment.
SKA has been involved in more than a 150 projects in almost all regions of India as well as neighboring countries. These projects are done in association with leading Indian and international professionals. With over 30 years of diversified international experience, SKA has worked on a wide range of projects in the U.S., The Gulf, Iran, Nepal, the Philippines and India.
The Partners of the firm have studied at top schools in the West and have worked and gained international experience in the USA and Europe for many years before choosing to return ‘home’ to India and expand SKA’s practice. The size of the firm and its philosophy of active principal involvement on projects allow us to provide boutique design services with the resources of a much larger firm. SKA’s practice, both in India and abroad encompasses all aspects of master planning, landscape architecture and urban design in the following sectors:
Master Planning Designs for Mixed land Use Townships
Residential
Commercial / Corporate
Hospitality
Institutional
Recreation
After receiving his MLA (Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture) from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA in 1969, Satish Khanna was involved in the Master Planning and Landscape Design of numerous mixed - use recreational and residential communities ranging from 100 acres to over 5000 acres in various parts of the US. During this period, he was also involved in the planning of Naval Communities in the Gulf and the Caspian Sea regions.
Satish Khanna returned ‘home’ in 1980 and founded Satish Khanna Associates (SKA). He is also a partner of DKS Consultants, a multi-disciplinary firm known for large-scale development including New Tehri Town in the U.P. Hills, which won the Prime Minister’s National Award for Excellence in Urban Planning and Design and was nominated for the International Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Fellow of Indian Society of Landscape Architects, he is an advisor to the Delhi Urban Arts Commission. Satish Khanna is also on the Visiting Faculty of the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and CEPT, Ahmedabad. A recipient of awards in national architectural competitions, SKA works have been published in the U.S. and India.